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When Brian was 9 he rode his bike into a car and broke his ankle.
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Brian sees his mother in a car at the mall with another man that is not his father.
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Brian is in a plane on the way to the oil fields to see his father when the piolt has a heart attack and dies leaving Brian to fly the plane alone. The plane runs out of gas and Brian crashes into a lake.
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Brian is so thirsty and wants to drink so he plunges his head into the water and slurps it up.
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Brian finds berries and eats handful after handful pits and all.
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Brian is picking raspberries when he turns and sees a bear. The bear doesn't attack Brain it mearly watches him and then moves on.
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Brian builds a shelter by scooping sand from a pit and building a secondary wall out of branches.
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A rescue plane flies over but doesn't see Brian.
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Brian gives up and attempts suicide by cutting his wrists. He wakes up on the rock overhanging of his shelter, still alive and mad at himself for doing it.
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Brian makes a fire!
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A porcupine comes into Brian's shelter and stabs him in the leg with its quills after he startles it.
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Brian has survived for 42 days as the new Brian. The old Brian died with the plane. He is tired of fish.
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Brian is visited by a skun and destroys his shelter attempting to get away after being sprayed. After the skunk leaves he spends three days reconstructing his home.
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Brian catches and kills a foolbird for the first time and enjoys its meat over the unfilling fish.
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Brian needs a way to store food. So he uses a shelf above his shelter. He needs to store fish so he gets a tank to store it.
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A tornado hits his shelter.
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A Moose cow attacks Brian while he is washing a foolbird in the lake.
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A plane hears Brian's emergency transmitter and rescues him. After 54 long days; Brian is going home.
